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A badge is a device or fashion accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath (e.g., police and fire), a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple means of identification. They are also used in advertising, publicity, and for branding purposes.
Badges can be made from metal, plastic, leather, textile, rubber, etc., and they are commonly attached to clothing, bags, footwear, vehicles, home electrical equipment, etc. Textile badges or patches can be either woven or embroidered, and can be attached by gluing, ironing-on, sewing or applique. Badges have become highly collectable: in the UK, for example, the Badge Collectors' Circle has been in existence since 1980. In the military, badges are used to denote the unit or arm to which the wearer belongs, and also qualifications received through military training, rank, etc. Similarly, youth organizations such as scouting and guiding use them to show group membership, awards and rank.
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
John Clayton Mayer ( /ˈmeɪ.ər/ MAY-ər; (born October 16, 1977) is an American pop and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following, and he now lives in New York City. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland."
Mayer began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but gradually began a transition towards the blues genre in 2005 by collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton, and by forming the John Mayer Trio. The blues influence can be heard throughout his 2005 live album Try! with the John Mayer Trio and his third studio album Continuum, released in September 2006. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 Mayer won Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change". He released his fourth studio album, Battle Studies, in November 2009. His fifth album, Born and Raised, was released on May 22, 2012. He has sold over 10 million albums in the U.S. and 20 million albums worldwide.
Actors: Mary Rachel Dudley (writer), Mary Rachel Dudley (director), William Haze (actor), James Martin Kelly (actor), Ray Bouchard (actor), Owen Harn (actor), Lance Tafelski (actor), Trudie Petersen (actress), Charles Harrelson (actor), Brian Greathouse (actor), Kurt Hockenberry (actor), Janice Badger (actor), Rob Philips (actor),
Genres: Romance,Actors: Maya Zapata (actress), Chuck Bunting (actor), Dominic Conti (actor), Peter Dominguez (editor), Peter Dominguez (producer), Peter Dominguez (producer), Courtney Meyer (writer), Courtney Meyer (producer), Courtney Meyer (director), Michele Dawson (actress), Connor Fabiano (composer), Joshua Finn (actor), Connor Callaghan (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Martin Tempest (director), Martin Tempest (writer), Andrew Leeks (actor), Peter Mintimnus (editor), Georgina Suffell (actress), Sam Croft (writer), Peggy Reading (actor), Sian Roberts (actress), Tom Elding (actor), Alex Grant (actor), Roger Rix (actor), Milly Beach (actress), Natasha Branch (actor), Ben Croft (writer),
Genres: Action, Family,Actors: Tom Hiddleston (actor), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (actor), Sara Doughty (miscellaneous crew), David Rintoul (actor), Kathryn Worth (actress), Mary Roscoe (actress), Barbara Stone (producer), Helle le Fevre (editor), Joanna Hogg (writer), Joanna Hogg (director), Michael Hadley (actor), Harry Kershaw (actor), Paolo Guglielmotti (miscellaneous crew), Sophie Clarke (miscellaneous crew), Stéphane Collonge (costume designer),
Plot: During a sticky patch in her marriage forty-something Anna spends a summer holiday with her friends Verena and George at their Tuscan villa but hangs out with the couple's teen-aged children and their cousin Oakley,with whom she goes skinny-dipping and sight-seeing. When the youngsters prang a borrowed car and Anna tells George how it happened,causing a huge scene with his elder son, the kids turn against her. Observing family life as an outsider - unrelated - Anna ultimately comes to be grateful for what she has got.
Keywords: bare-breasts, childlessness, crashed-car, family-argument, family-relationships, female-frontal-nudity, male-frontal-nudity, marriage, offscreen-shouting, skinny-dippingActors: Gary Grubbs (actor), Brent Briscoe (actor), Mike Nyman (actor), Dan Schalk (editor), Dan Schalk (producer), Melissa Molinaro (actress), Jules Willcox (actress), Mark Fauser (actor), Lela Edgar (actress), David Burr (actor), Brad Pennington (actor), Kelly Thiebaud (actress), Bo Weinberg (producer), Bo Weinberg (composer), Tiffany Mataras (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: John Flaus (actor), Esben Storm (director), Peter Best (composer), Ralph Strasser (editor), Peter Hehir (actor), Geoffrey Daniels (producer), David Phillips (writer), Jill Robb (producer), Patricia Edgar (producer), Mary Haire (actress), Emma Pugh (actress), Alexander Jacobs (actor), Cameron Atkins (actor), Nan Chauncy (writer), Jane McArthur (actress),
Genres: Family,by Eric Clapton and George Harrison
Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove in my car.
Thinkin' that I might have drove you too far.
And I'm thinkin' 'bout the love that you laid on my table.
I told you not to wander 'round in the dark.
I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park.
Then I told you 'bout our kid, now he's married to Mabel.
Yes, I told you that the light goes up and down.
Don't you notice how the wheel goes 'round?
And you better pick yourself up from the ground
Before they bring the curtain down,
Yes, before they bring the curtain down.
Talkin' 'bout a girl that looks quite like you.
She didn't have the time to wait in the queue.
She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle.